Sport: Big splash

The world's greatest swim sprinter is knock-kneed, rusty-haired Alan
Robert Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a
final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American
free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final
Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his
stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like
an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was
loafing. Three official A.A.U.
watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100...